[Freeciv-Dev] Re: non-existent technologies

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:28:20PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > this is crap. marginal? I think not. you're talking about adding something
> > > like 150k to each savegame (to store ruleset info).
> > 
> > I don't have an opinion on whether to store the sulset of a capability 
> > string;
> > you and Jason can fight that out.  I just like the idea of getting rid of
> > the magic numbers in favor of names.
> 
> Aargh. I meant to write "The ruleset or a capability string"

I just want to throw in two suggestions and then disappear from this
debate.

- Use XML for savegames (and probably everything else). You can keep
  the map save format intact with XML.

- Save the ruleset data *once* for every game you start in a seperate file.

Thank you.

Christian

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